Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers The Rewatchables
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Picking Nits

Children knowing Jamie’s uncle, local adoptions and undeveloped town dysfunction

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  • Children knowing Jamie’s uncle, local adoptions and undeveloped town dysfunction are questioned.
  • The parents’ dinner consumes most of the film; leaving children on the anniversary of the killings is criticized.
  • Selling Myers masks and moving from suburban Haddonfield to farmland are questioned; a tourist-attraction explanation is floated.
  • Myers finding his niece at the drugstore, going unseen, driving a conspicuous stolen truck and fitting a mask over bandages strain credibility.
  • His knowledge of the power grid is implausible, with supernatural guidance jokingly offered.
  • Hoffman’s urgency to transfer Myers, hostility to Loomis, institutional hierarchy and federal-prisoner description are unclear.
  • Sending only two middle-aged paramedics after16 earlier murders is criticized.
  • Claims of Myers’s wasted muscles should have been checked rather than assumed.
  • The protective sheriff lets his daughter remain without pants or a bra around everyone during the emergency.
  • Myers knows the cemetery, power station and police station despite confinement since childhood.